We travelled for one year, taking our work along. This presentation is about our experience, with the good and the bad, and some tips & tricks when you want to copy this lifestyle. By www.nomadz.nu This presentation was presented on Barcamp Ghent 4 - 2011 *Interested in an inspiring presentation for your school/company/organization? Check us out! http://nomadz.nu/speaking/*

1. DON’T BE RICH
LIVE RICH
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2. A
nomadic
Adventure
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3. 2010
LOOKED
like this:
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4. FLEW into
South
Africa
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5. MOVED ON
TO
THAILAND
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6. AND
TRAVELLED
TO
ARGENTINA
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7. WE SET
FOOT IN 10
COUNTRIES
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8. Lived in
A SOME
DESIGN
APPART-
MENTS
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9. Drove
A VINTAGE
CAR
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10. Game
watching
in Kruger
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11. BBQ
In a
township
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12. Africa
Burn
in the
desert
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13. SurfING
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14. DID
HORSEBACK
RIDING IN
PATAGONIA
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15. SAW
FALLS BY
FULL MOON
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16. WALKED
ON A
GLETSJER
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17. met
incredible
people
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18. had
loads of
fun!
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19. ARE WE rich?
NO!
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20. THE COST, YOU ASK?
A normal monthly
wage
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21. HOW DID WE DO IT?
WE KEPT ON WORKING!
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22. WHAT do
we do ?
★
Catherine: online
communication +
launching www.butikk.nu
(@cvanholder
★
Ine: web designer
& photographer
(@matuvu)
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23. WHY DID
WE DO
IT?
★
Love travelling
★
Have more ‘time’.
★
Wanted to do our own
projects again
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24. Don’t be rich
Live rich
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25. Lifestyledesign
★
Design your own life according
what you want to make out of it.
★
Don’t think in the normal
‘templates’ of life.
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26. Nu NOMADS
★
Live on the road while working
★
Location Independent
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27. Life HACKING
★
GTD: Stop underperforming: Win ‘time’
★
Achieve goals & dreams
★
Time & space for personal projects
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28. CAN YOU DO IT?
YES, you can!
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29. SO HOW DID WE
DO IT?
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30. How?
★
Work while on the
road
★
Have the right tools
★
Plan carefully
★
Budgetted
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31. OUR WAY
OF DOING IT
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32. First step
★
Figured out what we wanted in life.
★
Read ‘4 hour work week’ and checked the side info
★
Downloaded a budget planner
★
Chose destinations (gut feeling + internet available)
★
Started planning
★
& Saved money (by selling stuff + asking 4 money
instead of presents
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33. SECOND step
★
Figured out a job to do remotely / Checked for
grants / gap year subsidizing / ...
★
We went to the accountant and asked what is
possible
★
Went 4 cheap tickets (Airstop / Connections) and
checked early booking
★
We told our clients we were leaving. Prepared
them (and our family). Installed Skype on their PC
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34. THIRD step
★
Found a hostel / hotel / couch for some days
(couchsurfing.org, booking.com)
★
Went on the local craigslist for apartments /
checked the ads in the newspaper
★
Found locals through twitter / couchsurfing
★
Got a local mobile number + connect it to
nomado.eu
★
Found ourself an office / café with wifi
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35. FOURTH step
★
Lived locally
★
Worked normal hours
★
Spent weekend on doing fun stuff
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36. HOLD ON..
IS IT THAT EASY?
YES! IT IS!
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37. HOLD ON..
IS IT THAT EASY?
NO! IT ISN’T!
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38. SOME OF AFTERTHOUGHTS
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39. THE HARD STUFF
★
You just can’t do it all. You’re not a tourist, you have a
working life and are not on vacation. Although many
people think you are.
★
Tourist stuff is expensive. Very expensive.
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40. THE HARD STUFF II
★
Starting over and over again is tiring. Rather choose
for 6 months than 4. Don’t underestimate the
practical stuff you need to learn (which supermarket
to go, find an apartment, postal office)
★
Language is a deal breaker: we made easily friends in
S Africa. Thailand and Brazil turned out to be hard due
to the language.
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41. THE HARD STUFF III
★
Some countries are not what you thought they would
be. Argentina turned out very expensive. And too big
for weekend trips. And for that reason not that
exciting for us.
★
Difficulties can put your relationship under stress.
Most important: Keep on talking. Respect each other.
Give each other space.
(We survived and the relationship became stronger.)
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42. THE HARD BUSINESS I
★
Working needs discipline: It really helped us to have
an office in Buenos Aires. We became much more
productive
★
Headphones are a must
★
Good internet makes a hell of a difference, although,
not having it all the time makes you more productive
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43. THE HARD BUSINESS II
★
Clients that were difficult at home, are difficult on the
road.
★
We didn’t do anything illegal, but for what we did, there
wasn’t any real regulation...
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44. THE GOOD STUFF
★
We did it! We really did it. And it worked! We had an
amazing year.
★
We were able to focus on the things we wanted, like we
had in mind.
★
We travelled a lot. Really a lot.
★
And we came home with more money than we started.
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45. ADVERTISEMENT
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46. BUDGETBOUTIQUE
HOTELS.net
★
Feel like staying in those splendid places we do?
A site out of all those cheap wonderful hotels we
★
visited, and others. So all of you don’t have to envy
us anymore.
You can now stay in the same places without being
www. rich! :)
butikk.nu - the website catherine launched for
affordable design/boutique hotels worldwide.
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47. ANY
QUESTIONS?
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48. ★
Ine Dehandschutter
www.matuvu.nu
@matuvu
★
Catherine Van Holder
www.newbraveworld.nu
@cvanholder
★
Nomadz.nu
www.nomadz.nu
Read you soon!
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49. INTERESTING TOOLS
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50. Gear
★
Laptop
★
iPhone + Local mobile number + SIP solution
(local Belgian number is gated to our local
number abroad at very affordable rates)
★
iPhone + Skype
★
TelenetConnect for internet (on laptop + iphone)
★
Backup disks in case of emergencies
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51. PRO software
★
Skype for contacting clients + screensharing
★
Billings for tracking time + invoices
★
Dropbox / Sugarsync / Nomadesk
for filesharing
★
Backblaze for online backupping
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52. xtra Gear
★
E-Reader (Sony Reader)
★
iPod / mp3player
★
iPad
★
Camera’s
★
Well, clothes and other stuff you need for
living & travelling.
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53. OTHER TOOLS WE LOVED
★
See before (VOIP/nomado.eu, telenetconnect, skype)
★
AirBNB.com: holy cow!
★
The combo wifi/3g + Booking.com rocks! We once
arrived in Thailand from Belgium, booked a flight on
low cost carrier, and immediately booked a hotel via
booking.com. All in the airport...
★
Facebook & twitter: best way to keep in touch easily
Monday 27 June 2011